Hubble Helps Determine Uranus’ Rotation Rate with Unprecedented Precision
An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made new measurements of Uranus' interior rotation rate ...
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Was there ever a planet between Mars and Jupiter?Â
Back to Article List From the April 2025 issue It is highly unlikely a planet ever existed in this location, ...
Read moreDetailsHow Can I See the Northern Lights? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DEx3bnr6gQ How can I see the northern lights? To see the northern lights, you need to be in the right ...
Read moreDetailsNASA’s Webb Captures Neptune’s Auroras For First Time
Long-sought auroral glow finally emerges under Webb’s powerful gaze For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured ...
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Our solar system is not as unusual as we thought
The Kepler-11 system, as imagined from above, is a "peas-in-a-pod" planetary system. Credit: NASA Astronomers have discovered more than 300 ...
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Martian moon caught on camera during Hera flyby
Back to Article List The mysterious Deimos was spotted while ESA’s planetary defense mission travels to its target asteroid. This ...
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Could Mars’ red color have formed under wet conditions?
Back to Article List A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name ...
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The Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon
The next full moon is called the Worm Moon. Also, there will be a total lunar eclipse this full moon. ...
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Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space
Credit: Micah Tindell/Unsplash There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter – ...
Read moreDetailsNASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Takes Its 1st Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between ...
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